Pop can aluminum tabs?!

Like Jill said, my son's school also collects them for the Ronald McDonald House and the class who collects the most gets a pizza party. But I started collecting them long before that when my sister was on dialysis and the place where she went collected these tabs, probably to help pay for the equipment or something.

ACtually this is news to me, this is the first I have heard of this . I had no idea people actually collected these. And the most interesting how much people are willing to pay for them. HMMM very interesting.

I haven't noticed it where I live, the only time I collected them was a few years back as they had a promotion that if you collected whatever the amount was you could trade it in for a free T-shirt. These fads though can be unpredictable and sometimes difficult to understand. The fact that tabs are used to make things, may imply that certain colours that are difficult to find may create a market. Just a note, 2lbs of tabs are a lot of tabs, as they weigh a few ounces at most, to get that amount requires a lot of cans.

I have collected these for my granddaughter and they donate them to the Ronald McDonald house. I have never made anything from them so besides recycling I don't know what you would do with them.

Although this kind of pop tab creations are new to me...back in the day..you'd pull the tab off a can and save them and link them together for belts or things. Yeah, I am sure there was more to do with them than that, but that's what we did with them. And see how long a "rope" we could make with them!

There was a time when I collected those too. I was told that you can donate those tabs to make aluminum wheel chairs. I'm not really sure if it were true or not. But maybe that's why some people buy them. If they did recycle them to make wheel chairs then good!

I have seen purses, belts and bracelets made out of those pop tabs. I am actually saving some to make bracelets.

Besides recycling them I have no idea.

I've heard that some people make a faux kind of chain mail with them...

I know in Girl Scouts they made bracelets with them. And as you mentioned some groups wanted them for funds or donations to various groups but to sell them I don't know why.

I think the money from aluminum tabs is used to support the schools. Such is the case in my area.

If i was you, i would count them rather than weigh them and try to sell them, that way, at least you will get to make some money, also you will know in the future where to sell them if you get any more.I do think that it is great that people can make some nice things from them, as well as sell what ever they have made.

I'm pretty sure if you save them you can cash them in for money somewhere. That's all I know though. Otherwise I've seen them used in many types of crafts.